Malloy Doesn't Have Our Backs

In "Closing the Sale with Women" [Oct. 13, Page 1,], Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Shultz stated that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy "has the back of Connecticut's middle class and working families."

Gov. Malloy sure does -- and he chose to stick an economic knife right in those backs with the largest tax increase in state history. Considering Connecticut's standing by just about every economic indicator and considering forecasts of billion-dollar deficits in the next two budget years, and considering that this administration doesn't want to get real with the state employee unions and seriously cut spending, I wonder what will happen to our backs in the next fiscal year under a Malloy administration.

There are no easy solutions to our economic situation. Easy is just laying on more taxes, while hard is doing what industry has been doing in the private sector -- cost-benefit analysis on every job and every expenditure. I don't think the Malloy administration is up to the task.